1. "He's back!" she shouted; her brother, at six feet tall, towered over most Japanese men, and she knew at a glimpse that it was him. "他回来啦!"他的弟弟身高6英尺,比大多数日本男子高,她一眼望去就知道是他。
2. As she ran to catch the school bus, Sandy thought of her older brother Bill who was away at college. 去赶校车的路上,桑迪想起了在外面上大学的哥哥比尔。
3. An only child, Autumn liked hearing about Sandy's brother. 秋喜欢听桑迪哥哥的事情,因为她家就她一个独生女。
4. "I know what you mean. My brother, Bill, has been calling me, but doesn't want me to tell my parents." "我明白你的意思。我哥哥比尔一直跟我打电话,可又不想让我告诉父母他打了电话。"
5. " He's my brother. I want to help him," Sandy said. "他是我哥哥,我想帮助他," 桑迪说。
6. After the war, a character called Uncle Sam began appearing in political cartoons, his form evolving from an earlier cartoon character called Brother Jonathan that was popular during the American Revolution. 战后,政治漫画里开始出现了一个名叫"山姆大叔"的人物。他的原型是一个早期漫画人物,名叫乔纳森大哥,此人在美国独立战争时期非常出名。
7. "It's because divorce has such great economic consequences, and successive marriages have become so common," said a family law lawyer. "这是因为离婚会带来巨大的经济后果,而再婚又如此常见,"一位家庭法律师说。
8. A lawyer in a London law firm that often handles divorces for British-American couples noted that in Britain, prenuptial agreements were "just about ignored" by the courts because English law says that circumstances of a marriage aren't sta 伦敦一家法律公司的一名律师经常为分处英美两国的夫妇处理离婚事宜。他注意到,在英国,法院"几乎忽视"婚前协议,因为英国的法律认为婚姻状况不是静态的,因此应由法官来决定资产怎样分配。
9. As one writer points out, "your video renting habits are better protected by law than your medical records." 正如一位作者所指出的那样,"你租借录像带的习惯都能比你的医疗记录得到更好的法律保护。"
10. She could not understand her brother´s animosity against Bill. 她不能理解哥哥为什么对比尔深恶痛绝。